Bio

"...a truly diverse and illustrative project. It proves worthy of its boast that it's an exercise in cinematic storytelling and that Cornish's music defies easy categorization. There are strong flirts with blues, jazz, and world touches." - JazzReview.com on Sojourn

Never one to be going in only one direction, Bill Cornish seeks out projects that allow him to utilize his many influences. In addition to producing solo CDs which are an eclectic blend of jazz, funk, orchestral and world fusion, he recently composed the theme for the syndicated interview show Game Time with Boomer Esiason. He is currently the keyboardist for the pop-rock project The Jay Goeppner Band as well as the jazz/rock fusion project The Odd Get Even featuring drummer Bill Ray ( Paul Gilbert / Ike Turner ). He also serves as Music Producer for the show Behind the Lines.

Over the years, Bill has been the keyboardist for a variety of bands ranging in styles from hard rock to funk to Latin jazz, smooth jazz and R & B. From the early 80s through the mid-90s, he was keyboardist for Crystal, a band with whom he spent twelve years touring throughout the western United States, Alaska and Japan. During that time he opened for artists such as Kansas, Steelheart, Joan Jett, Steppenwolf, Firehouse, The Romantics, Pat Travers, and many others.

The Crystal album Collection was among the top ten selling melodic rock CDs for German distributor AOR Heaven in the year 2000.

In 2020, Bill has released his new solo album, Gratitude, an album with Thomas Connor under the name Heart Soul & Spirit and guested on a new album from The Rock. A new solo album is due out in 2022.

In addition to being involved with multiple recording projects, he can frequently be found performing live in the Chicagoland area with The Jay Goeppner Band, Backdated, Almost Joe, The Bruce Williams Band and others.